Sam Carter is a lecturer at Dartmouth College. His work focusing on sound, migration, and cultural production in Latin America has appeared or is forthcoming in Comparative Literature, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Hispanic Review, Revista Hispánica Moderna, and Sounding Out!, among other publications.
Sam Carter
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Conflicted Futures, Convex Literatures
“The novel’s distinctive capacity for revealing unexpected links can shed new light on how we consider and counter crises.”
Can a Novel Be Silent?
John Cage’s concerts taught us to hear silence. Can novels do the same?
What’s in a Gaze?
Only one authenticated portrait of the three Brontë sisters survives. Completed by their brother, Branwell, around 1834, it was discovered atop a cupboard in 1914. Remarkable as a record of the likenesses of Anne, Charlotte, and Emily, the painting also contains a spectral presence: the faint outlines of a man, widely assumed to be the […]
Ricardo Piglia and the Art of Interruption
With the attendant assurance of a 22-year-old, Ricardo Piglia proposed in 1964 that “Fundamentally, to narrate means to take charge of the distance between the …
